Question

Is there a name for a type of Star Schema in which there is a single Fact table which has a single column for value, and the type of value (the measure) is defined by a dimension?

In other words, a table like this:

Dim1ID     Dim2ID       MeasureID      Value
---------  -----------  -------------  ------------
543        44           1              234.3
543        45           1              256.3
544        44           1              245.3
544        45           1              264.5
543        44           2              10
543        45           2              8
544        44           2              9
544        45           2              10

With one value column that represents different measures via a foreign key.

Is there a name for this pattern?

Answer 1

Entity-Attribute-Value Model perhaps?

Editorial: Some people consider this to be an anti-pattern (in SQL), though in Column Based stores, this is the Usual Behaviour (BigTable, Cassandra).